To recall the best classical works, their brief content will help: Gogol, “Enchanted Place”

The story "The Enchanted Place" is one of N.V. Gogol from the cycle “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka”. Two main motives are intertwined in it: devilish hooliganism and treasure hunting. This article summarizes it. Gogol, “The Enchanted Place” is a book that was first published in 1832. But the time of its creation is not known for certain. It is believed that this is one of the earliest works of the great master. Let’s refresh all his main points.

N.V. Gogol, “The Enchanted Place”. The main characters of the work

• Grandfather.

• Chumaki (merchants).

• Grandchildren of grandfather.

• Grandfather’s daughter-in-law.

Summary: Gogol, “Enchanted Place” (introduction)

This story happened a long time ago, when the narrator was still a child. His father, having grabbed one of his four sons, went to sell tobacco in the Crimea. Three children remained on the farm, their mother and grandfather, guarding the tower (a garden planted with watermelons and melons) from uninvited guests. One evening a cart with traders drove past them. Among them were many friends of his grandfather. Having met, they rushed to kiss and remember the past. Then the guests lit a pipe, went treat. It became fun, went dancing. Grandfather also decided to shake the old days and show the Chumaks that he still has no equal in dance. Then something unusual began to happen to the old man. But the next chapter (its summary) will tell about this.

Gogol, "The Enchanted Place". Development of events

Grandfather sold, but as soon as he reached the cucumber garden, his legs suddenly ceased to obey. He climbed up, but there was no sense. There was a laugh from behind. He looked around, and there was no one behind him. And the place is unfamiliar around. Before him lies a bare field, and on the side of the forest, from which a long pole sticks out. For a moment it seemed to him that this was a clerk's threshing floor , and the pole, visible from behind the trees, was a dovecote in the garden of a local priest. Around it is darkness, the sky is black, there is no month. My grandfather went across the field and soon came across a small path. Suddenly, a light on one of the graves lit up ahead, then went out. Then a light flashed elsewhere. Our hero rejoiced, deciding that it was a treasure. He only regretted that he did not have a shovel now. “But that does not matter, thought his grandfather. “After all, you can notice this place with something.” He found a large branch and threw it on the grave, on which a light burned. Having done this, he returned to his chestnut. It was only too late, the children were sleeping. The next day, without saying a word to anyone and taking a spade with him, the restless old man went to the priest's garden. Yes, here's the trouble - now he did not recognize these places. There is a dovecote, so there is no threshing floor. Grandfather will turn around: there is a field, but the dovecote is gone. He returned home with nothing. And the next day, when the old man, deciding to dig a new ridge on his chestnut, hit a shovel in a place where he did not dance, suddenly the pictures in front of him changed, and he was in the same field where he saw the lights. Our hero was delighted, ran to the grave he had noticed earlier. A large stone lay on it. Having thrown it away, the grandfather decided to smell the tobacco. Suddenly someone sneezed heavily over him. The old man looked around, but nobody was there. He began digging the earth on the grave and dug up a cauldron. He was delighted and exclaimed: “Ah, there you are, my dear!” These same words were squeaked from a branch by a bird's head. And behind her a lamb's head flashed from a tree. A bear peeked out of the forest and roared the same phrase. Before his grandfather had time to say new words, the same faces began to echo him. The old man was frightened, grabbed the cauldron and rushed off. What happened to the unlucky hero next is described in the next chapter (its summary).

Gogol, "The Enchanted Place". Ending

And grandfather’s houses were already grabbing. We sat down for dinner, but he still wasn’t. After the meal, the hostess went to the garden to pour slops. Suddenly she saw a barrel climbing toward her. She decided that it was someone else's joke, and poured slops directly on her. But it turned out that it was his grandfather. In the cauldron that he brought with him there were only squabbles and rubbish. Since then, the old man vowed not to believe the devil anymore, and surrounded the damned place in his garden with a wattle fence. It was said that when this field was hired under the gourds of local chumaks, on this piece of land God knew that, it was impossible even to make out.

More than a century and a half ago, N.V. Gogol wrote “The Enchanted Place”. A summary of it is set forth in this article. Now it is no less popular than many years ago.